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Re: Have you ever seen a room full of second graders try to log into something?

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Maybe I'm just attacking the weakest point of your argument, but I feel like this has to be pointed out.

> Step 1 is Facebook Connect for education: one identity to tie together all of a student’s learning applications into a cohesive experience.

2nd graders can't use Facebook. Facebook's TOS requires you be at least 13, due to COPPA and the personal nature of Facebook data. The rest of your advertisement for jobs doesn't really make sense, since I don't know what problem you're solving - since the issue brought up was logging in - maybe you're just doing an education identity platform?

No idea. Just wanted to point out that your example was flawed.

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For context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7716837

Also, how come some of these posts have no author and no way to flag or comment? (not that I want to flag or comment them... it is just odd to me.)

They're YC companies, who get to make special posts like that when hiring on HN.

One of the things I like the most about HackerNews, and I suspect many (most?) others do too, are the comments. I clicked on the original link curious about why there was not any comments or up arrows ... but will know in the future that it is a waste of time. Why don't they simply add a label like [Jobs available] to clearly identify the purpose of such links?

You can tell by the absence of links to Discuss and Flag the post. I also find these posts a bit odd but HN is YC's sandbox after all, so I can't really complain about them building their own sand castles.

I have to agree with you there, I don't believe "Facebook Connect for Education" could take off in this case because of the Facebook ToS.

I think they meant 'it' like FB connect...,' or at least I hope so for the sake of their competency. I agree that the whole post was particularly poorly written.

Ah you're right, on second review that is what it means. Dropping the entire product name makes it parse like you're just combining the two.

And now I feel particularly stupid.

I thought the weakest part of their argument is that second graders have no problem logging into anything. My daughter is in second grade and her class manages just fine. They all have their own login on the school computers and no problems.

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